The Term Two-Party System Is Applied to the UK for All

question 5

Multiple Choice

The term two-party system is applied to the UK for all the following reasons EXCEPT

• A) from 1945 to 2010, only leaders of the Conservative or the Labour Party served as prime ministers.
• B) Conservative or Labour candidates come in first or second in virtually every parliamentary contest throughout the UK.
• C) since 1945, the Conservative and Labour parties have routinely divided at least 85 percent of the seats in the Commons.
• D) between 1945 and 2005, the Conservative and Labour parties have won roughly the same number of general elections.
• E) only two political parties are allowed under British law.

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